Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...veteran Admiral Hugh Rodman. In 1933, already spotted by scouts as a promising etcher with a strong satiric bent, Paul Cadmus returned from two years in Majorca, found commissions hard to get. From the Public Works of Art Project he received an average of $35 a week to stay in his own studio, paint what he liked. What he liked was a group of U. S. sailors having raucous and somewhat indecent fun with their molls on Riverside Drive. He called it The Fleet's Inl Down to Washington it went, where Admiral Rodman, Secretary of the Navy Claude...
...election's. Statistician Hurja was outdone by his boss last November when he guessed only 376 electoral votes for Roosevelt, against "General" Farley's bull's-eye 523. But that was no more reason for one to leave than for the other to stay. Their Washington job-to put & keep Franklin Roosevelt in the White House- was done, and private business was ready to bid high for their talents. Slated to become president of a Manhattan insurance company Emil Hurja should improve his present $10,000-per-year salary by a ratio considerably better than...
...Well, Pauline solved everything by telling the constables that she intended to leave me and I could stay with the kids...
Bobby here is an orphan being brought up by an ex-slave way down south. Suddenly it appears that he is to inherit a large fortune and so he travels north to stay with his Yankee relatives, a Mr. and Mrs. Layton and his grandmother, played by May Robeson. The parents stumble through an impossible role as a stupid, unimaginative couple, the kind only Hollywood can discover...
Three irate, dusky, and somewhat incoherent Hawaiians were the first visitors. They brought a slap base, a big drum, and a sweet guitar but all in vain. The funnymen just wouldn't let them stay and at last report the unhappy musicians were walking toward Boston...